Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

(asked on 19th September 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hanson of Flint on 3 September (HL10232), how many asylum seekers are currently placed in (1) hotels, (2) houses of multiple occupation, and (3) other locations and facilities in England, broken down by local council.


Answered by
Lord Hanson of Flint Portrait
Lord Hanson of Flint
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 3rd October 2025

The latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of supported asylum seekers accommodated in contingency and dispersed accommodation, including houses of multiple occupation, across England as at 30 June 2025.

The below figures are broken down by region. The data is available on GOV.UK under Immigration statistics and can be further broken down by local authority.

Region

Hotels

Dispersed Accommodation

Other

East Midlands

1,755

5,142

348

East of England

2,757

2,527

1,556

London

10,081

4,350

2,730

North East

309

6,891

96

North West

3,686

16,820

690

South East

3,402

3,122

449

South West

2,132

2,262

126

West Midlands

3,913

8,930

427

Yorkshire and Humber

2,129

6,956

601

This Government is delivering on its pledge to close asylum hotels; drastically reducing taxpayer costs and giving control back to local communities. This Government is committed to ending the use of hotels to house asylum seekers by the end of the Parliament.

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